As Britain clears up the mess left by the storm of the century, a political storm across the Irish sea has left a right old mess of its own.
Leo Varadkar’s future as made the country’s general election a three way tie.
And it’s only Sinn Fein’s failure to field enough candidates to fill the seats that will most likely stop them being the largest party once the dust settles and the votes are counted in Ireland’s baffling electoral system.
Those with a good medium-term memory will recall it was Mr Varadkar’s meeting with Boris Johnson in a swanky hotel on the Wirral that finally unlocked the door to a Brexit deal.
And while only 1% of Irish voters said Brexit was the country’s biggest issue, the manor house tete-a-tete will probably go down as a key moments in the history of the British Isles.
And regardless of whether Brexit itself was a defining factor in the Irish election, it seems the rebellious, anti-establishment feeling that sparked it has been mirrored in Ireland.
A rambunctious gale of votes has knocked over the long-standing two-party system in Ireland, and now three parties will have to get on their hands and knees and clear up the debris.
Tortured metaphors aside, ministers will today have serious questions to answer after tens of thousands of homes were left flooded and without power in the wake of Storm Ciara.
The reality of climate change is that storms like this are becoming more common - and will continue to do so.
And in the face of what some would see as the country’s most predictable, unpredictable emergency, many in Britain will have woken up astonished to see footage of places like Hebden Bridge, which suffered catastrophic flooding just five years ago, underwater once again.
Councils have spent millions on anti-flood infrastructure in the years since Boxing Day 2015 - but it wasn’t enough.
The first duty of any government is to keep its people safe - and that applies to flood protection every bit as much as protection from terrorism or marauding viruses.
Communities in Yorkshire and the Pennines are crying out for money to put long-term flood strategies in place to protect them from the threat of violent, extreme weather.
And if Boris Johnson doesn’t heed their calls this time, northern voters that gave him their conditional backing in the election might quickly find they have lender’s remorse.
What I am reading:
Kevin Maguire on Boris Johnson aide Dominic Cummings rapidly running out of rope
And
Nick Cohen on the Tories' worrying flirtation with Hungary's Viktor Orban
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